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SS Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| High Point Village | $57,425 |
| Lubbock Dream Center | $50,000 |
| Lubbock Symphony Orchestra | $40,000 |
| Texas Tech School of Music | $30,000 |
| Methodist Children's Home | $25,000 |
| Texas Tech Foundation | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Lubbock Impact | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Parkridge | $5,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Abiline | $5,000 |
| West Texas ALS Support Group | $3,000 |
| Texas NF Foundation | $2,500 |
| Stick Horses and Capes | $2,500 |
| Science Spectrum | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HPHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $618k · revenue +43% · 37% of their budget
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $313k · revenue +68%
- LSLUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SVStar Valley Health Charitable Foundone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TTTexas Tech Univ - Big Cureone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TSTTUHSC - School of Medicineone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Raising funds to support the activities of lubbock christian university and to fund capital projects for instructional facilities for lubbock christian university.
The ywca of lubbock legacy fund inc. is dedicated to meeting the needs of the ywca of lubbock in supporting the community through its mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for…
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.
The young women's christian association of lubbock is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.
The lubbock chamber of commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in the lubbock and surrounding area.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Provide cultural and performing arts programs for our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covenant Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARALLEL RESOURCE CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COVENANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS ALS SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds STICK HORSES AND CAPES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds CUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization SS Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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